Chile’s copper output, manufacturing production decline in January

Big haul truck and machinery working in Chuquicamata, biggest open pit copper mine of the world. Stock image.

Copper output in Chile, the world’s largest producer of the metal, fell 3% year-on-year in January to 413,712 metric tons, statistics agency INE said on Friday.

Manufacturing production in the Andean nation was down 3.8% in the month on a yearly basis, the agency added.

(By Fabian Cambero and Aida Pelaez-Fernandez; Editing by Gabriel Araujo)

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